Health officials say the water-borne disease is spreading fast because of the poor sanitation or contaminated water which Zimbabweans are using for drinking and to prepare food.

CNN: Cholera kills 300 in battered Zimbabwe

Christian Aid warns that the current conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan -- a crisis summed up by some as the world's first "climate change war" as spreading desertification and water shortages contributed to clashes between the region's African farmers and nomadic Arabs -- could be a taste of a "nightmare scenario" set to be repeated elsewhere across Africa and the world.

CNN: Climate change 'to create 1B refugees'

Dad blessed the house from the attic to the barn by spreading incense smoke and sprinkling holy water.

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Just spreading her wings, testing the water.

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They displace people from modern resources, like clean water and sewage systems, that prevent infectious disease from spreading.

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She added that new mud flats and creeks have been created and the salt marsh specialists have colonised and are spreading as the other grasses and rushes are killed off by the salt water.

BBC: Salt marsh returns to bomb site at South Efford reserve